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what is the point on intentionally misspelling simple words

like wat and rite ryte dis.... it drives me nuts when a whole sentence contains several misspelled words. some of them takes me 5 minutes to decipher, then the person gets mad because i don't answer back right away, and its because i'm not sure of what they said.
should i tell them to type more clearly so i can understand or would that be too rude?

I hate this too! But then if I say something then Im being "catty" or rude. What really irks me is that these people are having children! How are they supposed to teach their kids proper grammar and spelling when they themselves dont do it?

Ughhhhhhhhhhhh it annoys me soo much too! Especially DIS. I understand people talk like that when they are speaking but it is seriously necessary to spell it like that? I mean how much harder is it to type 1 more letter and spell it the right way? No I don't think it's rude to tell ppl to type more clearly. If they are looking for advice on here and are getting mad because they aren't getting any...maybe by letting them know it is hard to understand what they are saying will benefit them. But ugh I get really irritated of that too.

Yes, it irritates me now that I am in college. I can't even text that way now because I read over my texts and fix my grammar and my punctuation. My teacher has been really good and enforcing that. I'm glad that I have English Comp 2 with her!! She is wonderful!

its the new fashion, in keeping up with techonology like texting and iming and emailing...words have been abbreviated to no end. I understand why however....its rather quick to type.....I do it too...but via text...

I can understand the "quickness" aspect of some words, but we always used "bc" as because, not cuz' (and bc is faster/shorter than cuz') ... the ones that really get me are dat, and da.... cuz dat aint .... GRRRR! I know I do the dots a lot .... and it drives people crazy too, lol.

I think the new mispelling is the new "Lets all be ignorant and laugh in the faces of educated people" FAD. People brag about not going to school and make sure they don't have any skills, just getting by. Really a scary thought. But I hear it all the time and read it here at CM.